The Sinclair was rather ridiculed at the time as “not a real computer”.
Nothing ever changes - Instead of being excited by someone having the skills to implement chess in 670k of memory by using freakin’ machine language, and appreciating the Sinclair for what it is, they compared to what they had.
I mean wow, if you’ve never done machine language coding… I’m flabbergasted.
Was that chess program that bad ?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1K_ZX_Chess
https://youtu.be/U8RERRfDYYI
Why were they laughing ? This is a perfectly reasonable chess implementation
It was great. I was 10. I needed to be able to win once in a while, and I did.
They were laughing because they were early neckbeards. They probably had 16k of ram on their fancy BBC Micros.
Oh ok
Thought it was some kind of inside joke
Typical snobbery.
The Sinclair was rather ridiculed at the time as “not a real computer”.
Nothing ever changes - Instead of being excited by someone having the skills to implement chess in 670k of memory by using freakin’ machine language, and appreciating the Sinclair for what it is, they compared to what they had.
I mean wow, if you’ve never done machine language coding… I’m flabbergasted.
You’re off by a factor of 1000. It’s not 670k, it’s just 672 bytes, no prefix.